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A C# fluent repeater

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:01:03 GMT

A fully-featured fluent class used for repeating method calls, handle exceptions, callbacks and more... Just plug-and-play and start repeating stuff!

Batch Updates and Deletes with LINQ to SQL

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:26:52 GMT

A couple weeks ago, I read the article, LINQ to SQL Extension: Batch Deletion with Lambda Expression by Jeffrey Zhao. In case you didn't read the article, it discusses the downside of most O/R Mapping frameworks when it comes to multiple updates or deletes. He states the fact that a SQL statement for each row flagged as update/delete in the entity set is created. I went about implementing something similar to what Jeffrey envisioned and I'll explain some of the hurdles I had to overcome to achieve it.

C# methods decoration using lambda expressions

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:33:02 GMT

On regular basis several repeating code blocks appear in projects source code. Wouldn't it be great if we could just say: here is my method, do call within TCF block ("try - catch - finally" block) first time I need it, but I may require to call it with "try - catch" block only next time or with other catch block content (say I had logging there, but decided to remove or replace it for some special cases of this method call): // Like this return MyMethod1.TCF(ex => Log(ex), arg => DoSomeFinallyAction(arg))(arg);

Beware of the mysterious params in C#!

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:01:03 GMT

The 'params' keyword may behave different than you might think it should! This one is a must for every C# developer out there!